Dutch Oven Mac ; Cheese | 12 in diameter cylinder | 2016 My bride E.B. runs a kids’ opera company called San Francisco Little Opera. Her and I predicted that it would be fun and not a lot of backbreaking work to take the kids …

San Francisco // California WINTER 2016 DO NOT CONFUSE THE PAST WITH YOUR MEMORY OF THE PAST. The past is a realm you will never directly experience. Your memory of the past is possibly just a neurochemical reaction. Is it important to keep in mind …

Summer 2015 Update Dear Friends, If you are reading this and if you are a person, then you are a very important person. Welcome to my summer newsletter. A lot has happened around the studio in the last few months and I’m excited to share it with …

The Great California Drought and its corporate sponsors have recently taken a short leave, and those of us in southwest Northern California have enjoyed a December shift from drought to daily downpour. As a result the Bay Area suddenly sprouted to life in an unrelenting …

Summer break is one of America’s great traditions. Mine formally kicked off with a long weekend On The Road with Ben Hill, America’s poet laureate of Minor League Baseball, in Texas, a state in America. There I joined Ben for a near-lethal Lone Star injection …

The great Balboa Avenue has a new gateway. Concrete mosaics at 34th and 39th now greet us in the best Art Deco tradition as we come and go . Along with Simple Pleasures’ new parklet, it’s a really nice improvement to the neighborhood.

I foresee a distinguished future for this image of the manmade and the natural coming together, captured earlier this week in four sequential stills. I like the complex pattern of intricate negative shapes. My professional opinion? This image is a strong candidate for stenciling.

Art historians of the future will one day note that in the early days of 2014 (roughly Stardate 91690.08, according to the online calculator), my work enjoyed an extended foray into the world of canvas. Only future history can tell how long this train of …

For the last few months I’ve been thinking a lot about the power of entropy, variation, and mistakes. I’m converging on the realization that my artmaking has led me to a process that is equipped to dig deep into these concepts with screen printing. Here’s …